Wichita eagle., 1887-08-13
WOMAN AND HOME.
DEADLY FASCINATION OF THE SWEET
TEMPERED AND CLEVER UGLY.

\ Putting Away Winter Clothins-Car<
| Of the Isaby-Feminine ToiIet-Little
| Midget-Training of ChfIdren-BeIIes
| in Green-Notes and Hints.
| II I did not know girls better; If, in fact,
had not been years ago girl myself, should
| assume that Easter morn would find only
rows on rows of pretty girls on their knees
| with thoughts on the Gtany and the book Of
common prayer. Girls are human, thank
heaven, very human. and it does my heart
good to have this last confidential talk on
| clothes.
First by way Of moral. let me speak Of a
reflection have made or rather been making
this morning. Luckily enough the captain
Of the French mail steamer did not see fit to
mistake North Carolina for New Jersey or
Long Island for his pier. As consequence,
there has come to hand very precious, long
looked for budget of magazines, French, and
French to the very last gasp. They are not
fashion magazines in any sense of the word,
but there is due attention to womankind. A
French magazine, like Frenchman himself,
would be i'll at ease far from femninity.
Women, old and young; bellies, beautiful
and ugly, adorn these pages as they do our
own private life. And the thing that struck
me particularly, and that / am now using
for my moral is, "How a Frenchman delights
in an ugly woman"
Delighting is not necessarily loving or
making love to. It is much more subtle
and delicate form of admiration than max
ing love, this celighting; much more.
The Frenchman paints the ugly woman's
picture and stands before 1t in rapt admira-
fip, Ha Iocin,c hor md
her hats, and walks around her with his
hand on his heart. 1t is his ambition in
way that does it. He creates her and gives
her her being. Then, like many another
creature, he lets her rest.
What has this to do with fashionss Every
thing Pretty women, as :. rule, can look
out for thenselves-and do. AS whatever
they wear looks well on them, and they are
free to follow their own sweet will, it follows
that they do not yearn for extraneous adj
vice. Perhaps the ugly woman does not
yearn for it either, but even so, she gets it.
Sometimes she needs it.
The advice that I mean is not complete
4Book for Ugly Girls" but a general awak-
ening to the possibilities of ones self, and de-
termination to foster those possibilities to
the utmost. Good skin; perfect skin. Good
hair; immaculate hair. Good eyes; clear,
healthy, happy eyes. Good mouth; clear
teeth and happy curl to the corner. Good
figure; tight gowns. Bad fgure-artistio
gowns and trust to luck for the craze to last
Oh, an ugly woman is to be envied rather
than pitied if she knows which side is her best
side. In the first place, other women won't
get jealous of her, same as they do Of pretty
women, without rhyme or reason. In the
second place, she will be forgiven her extra
care for herself, with blunt thought, per-
haps unfattering-"Poor thing, she needs it
all" And last, but not least, if she be hui
man, same as most of us are, every triumph
will be balm to her soul, doubly sweet be-
cause of the disadvantages of the case.
Another thing, there is deadly fascina-
ton about a sweet tempered and clever ugly
woman. You are continually growing cool,
with the idea that at last she no longer
pleases you, then growing hot when doubly
brilliant-he- flashes of fascination, like Ma
cauley'S flashes of silence, prove utterly ire
sistiblc.
Oh, no! do not pity the ugly woman pro-
vided she is WISE Those that love her love
her twice as well as a merely pretty woman
is ever loved, and she knows it. They appre-
ciate the cleverness which can triumph over
everything, and SO does She
But when we find an ugly woman who has,
as it were, left all hope behind, what are we
to do2
1t is unpromising situation, is it mott And
nothing Is to be done except talk Talk is
like the proverbial rain to these ugly ducks
1t may, however, like that, set them awhile
later to pluming themselves.
The one great obstacle in the way Of a
would be missionary is the natural shyness OF
this young heather. A girl who has been
booted at by her brothers, and excused and
apologized for by the feminine members of
her household, is not to be overburdened with
conceit; in fact, she is apt to be anything else,
from painfully bashful to right down bad
tempered.
Here then will como in well good dose Of
my usual pauacea-common sense Common
sense will do more toward making ones life
and lot agreeable than anything else.
Tell an ugly girl that the more she sulks
and wrinkles her forehead and draws down
the corners of her mouth the uglier she will
Tell her the more she
Celebrates her complexion with red ana white
the more the world will think she has to.
Tell her the moro she goes about lsnk and
the more palpable will DO the diff
ference between her and girl whose features
and clothes are equally regular Teach her
that oil the world is not alike, and that while
she herself admires certain pretty woman,
there is every possibility that there are plenty
of people to whom she, IL she would, might
seem perfection.
Raise her ideas of herself by any means
Fib to her if necessary, but in some way or
another give h,r little comfort and little
common sens. Then she will be happy, and
will repay your trouble by blossoming out
like the rose - San Francisco Chronicle.
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